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Barcode30293102322471
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call No248.4 Murr
TitleTaking religion seriously / Charles Murray.
AuthorMurray, Charles A., author.
CollectionNF
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 1641774851 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 9781641774857 (hardcover)
Personal Name Murray, Charles A., author.
Title Statement Taking religion seriously / Charles Murray.
Edition Statement First American edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Encounter Books, 2025.
Physical Description 185 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction -- Part I: Taking God seriously. "More than evolution required" -- Perceptual deficit -- Moving off dead center -- The brute facts of the Big Bang -- Challenges to materialism -- Part II: Taking Christianity seriously. A strange new respect -- Enter C. S. Lewis -- The moral law -- Who wrote the Gospels and when? -- The historicity of the Gospels -- What's the point?
Summary, Etc. "Taking Religion Seriously is Murray's autobiographical account of the decades-long evolution in his stance toward the idea of God in general and Christianity in particular. He argues that religion is something that can be approached as an intellectual exercise. His account moves from the improbable physics of the Big Bang to recent discoveries about the nature of consciousness, from evolutionary psychology to hypotheses about a universal Moral Law. His exploration of Christianity delves into the authorship of the Gospels, the reliability of biblical texts, and the scholarship surrounding the resurrection story. Murray, the author of Coming Apart and coauthor of The Bell Curve, does not write as an expert. He acknowledges that those taking religion seriously for the first time, like himself, must grapple with topics and ideas that defy intellectual mastery. In this book, Murray offers his personal example of intellectual struggle toward religion. "Maybe God needs a way to reach over-educated agnostics and that's what I stumbled into," he writes. "It's a more arid process than divine revelation but it has been rewarding. And, if you're like me, it's the only game in town""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Christianity.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Attitude (Psychology)
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Religious life.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Self-realization Religious aspects.
Index Term-Genre/Form Apologetic writings.

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